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[heydude6]

I'm just saying that the media shouldn't be only source talking about a story. With Covid you had the organizations like the WHO and CDC making statements. And let's not forget about the testimony of Chinese citizens on WeChat during the early days when China was trying to cover up the existence of the virus. COVID was a story that was dying to be told.

I can't afford to let myself get invested in every catastrophe the media is talking about, especially when it's something I have no control over. That's gonna wreck your mental health. So for the sake of my sanity, I really have no choice but to ignore it until it becomes a more active part of my life.

It's stuff like this that makes me hate modern news media, because I want to be informed, I want to know what's going on around me, but they add so much junk in with the real stories that consuming too much of it literally makes you sick.

[King Zultan]

Sounds like I should probably just ignore anything about this one until actually does something, or starts popping up in my area.

[Starver]

Not that you'll ever find out about it, of course, if you follow advice. 

[Ziusudra]

The avian and human influenza A virus receptors sialic acid (SA)-α2,3 and SA-α2,6 are widely expressed in the bovine mammary gland

These results provide a mechanistic rationale for the high levels of H5N1 virus reported in infected bovine milk and show cattle have the potential to act as a mixing vessel for novel IAV generation.

However,

Most researchers I've talked to are pretty skeptical of this idea, however. For the udder to function as a mixing vessel, you would have to have the same cells infected by H5N1 and a human flu virus. As far as we can tell that is highly unlikely.

Even Richard Webby, one of the preprint's authors, agreed with this when I talked to him. “The possibility is there, but you’re dead right, it’s a pretty rare occurrence, I'd think, even this outbreak.”